The only problems we can really solve in a satisfactory manner are those that finally admit a nicely factored solution. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain